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At-home ultrasound question

jd05icjd05ic
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Is a doppler the same as the ultrasound machine at the OB office or is it for listening to the heartbeat only? Where can I find either and how affordable are they?

I've always had this impression that personal u/s machines were only for the fabulously rich but I've read posts that said things like "if you have a doppler..." etc.

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  • Stacyc625Stacyc625 member
    doppler = listening to heartbeat
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  • shall923shall923 member
    I have a doppler and paid $69 on amazon. It is for heat beat only no pictures.
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  • EASwimmerEASwimmer member
    A doppler is only for heartbeat.  I have however gone to the vet clinic where my moms works and did my first ultrasound on myself at 6wks 4days and saw our little peanut.  I think I will go in this week again when I go see my mom. 
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  • wife1014wife1014 member

    imageEASwimmer:
    A doppler is only for heartbeat.  I have however gone to the vet clinic where my moms works and did my first ultrasound on myself at 6wks 4days and saw our little peanut.  I think I will go in this week again when I go see my mom. 

    What the heck kind of u/s machine do vets use which would allow you to actually see your baby at 6wks?  I am assuming you did not use it transvaginally...

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    imagewife1014:

    imageEASwimmer:
    A doppler is only for heartbeat.  I have however gone to the vet clinic where my moms works and did my first ultrasound on myself at 6wks 4days and saw our little peanut.  I think I will go in this week again when I go see my mom. 

    What the heck kind of u/s machine do vets use which would allow you to actually see your baby at 6wks?  I am assuming you did not use it transvaginally...

     

    I've never had an internal!  It's the same that the doctor can use.  I had a full bladder and saw our the little pea and we saw the heartbeat.  The u/s machines there are just like a regular one.  We used the hand wand on my stomach.  Just like all the other u/s I had from my doctor.  There was another tech there PG as well and she found out the sex before her appt with her doctor.  Whenever she wanted a peek at the baby they did.  My doctor that it was awesome that we did the u/s.  

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  • blondek8blondek8 member
    I wouldn't recommend an "at home u/s machine". The u/s techs do years worth of schooling (at least up here they do) to be competent at their jobs. You f'ing around at home with an u/s machine is going to accomplish nothing good. Get a doppler.
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  • wife1014wife1014 member
    imageEASwimmer:
    imagewife1014:

    imageEASwimmer:
    A doppler is only for heartbeat.  I have however gone to the vet clinic where my moms works and did my first ultrasound on myself at 6wks 4days and saw our little peanut.  I think I will go in this week again when I go see my mom. 

    What the heck kind of u/s machine do vets use which would allow you to actually see your baby at 6wks?  I am assuming you did not use it transvaginally...

     

    I've never had an internal!  It's the same that the doctor can use.  I had a full bladder and saw our the little pea and we saw the heartbeat.  The u/s machines there are just like a regular one.  We used the hand wand on my stomach.  Just like all the other u/s I had from my doctor.  There was another tech there PG as well and she found out the sex before her appt with her doctor.  Whenever she wanted a peek at the baby they did.  My doctor that it was awesome that we did the u/s.  

    So, you're saying at 6 wks you saw your baby through an u/s which was NOT vaginally.  That is one super duper u/s machine in the vets office to detect your fetus that early.  Very cool! 

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  • EASwimmerEASwimmer member
    imagewife1014:
    imageEASwimmer:
    imagewife1014:

    imageEASwimmer:
    A doppler is only for heartbeat.  I have however gone to the vet clinic where my moms works and did my first ultrasound on myself at 6wks 4days and saw our little peanut.  I think I will go in this week again when I go see my mom. 

    What the heck kind of u/s machine do vets use which would allow you to actually see your baby at 6wks?  I am assuming you did not use it transvaginally...

     

    Yup that's what I'm saying.  I was 6wks 4days and saw the baby with the abdominal wand(external).  I was also 7wks with an external ultrasound when we saw DS.  Like I said I never had any internal u/s with either PG.  And we saw the flicker of the heartbeat which was really cool.  Wasn't expecting to see that early.  But I knew when I o'd so I knew if something was there you would see the baby. 

     

    My mom said that even some of the bigger vet clinics and vet hospitals have the 3d/4d u/s machines.  They don't however, heck my doctors clinic doesn't even have the 3d/4d!

     

    I've never had an internal!  It's the same that the doctor can use.  I had a full bladder and saw our the little pea and we saw the heartbeat.  The u/s machines there are just like a regular one.  We used the hand wand on my stomach.  Just like all the other u/s I had from my doctor.  There was another tech there PG as well and she found out the sex before her appt with her doctor.  Whenever she wanted a peek at the baby they did.  My doctor that it was awesome that we did the u/s.  

    So, you're saying at 6 wks you saw your baby through an u/s which was NOT vaginally.  That is one super duper u/s machine in the vets office to detect your fetus that early.  Very cool! 

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